2021

IRAN - 4 prisoners executed In Urmia on December 31, 2021

Moghadam Alizade, Hossen Abbasi Zade, Hamdullah Alami and Fayzullah Ghorbani

IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yasuj on December 30

CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO THREW CHILDREN OUT WINDOW AND GIRLFRIEND WHO INSTIGATED THE MURDERS

A couple from western China’s Chongqing municipality were both sentenced to death on 28 December 2021 for conspiring to kill the man’s two young children from a previous marriage so they could start a new family.

NIGERIA: 4 GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN OGUN

An Abeokuta High Court on 24 December 2021 sentenced four gang members to death by hanging for armed robbery.

IRAQ: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERROR CHARGES

An Iraqi criminal court on 23 December 2021 handed death sentences to three people accused of having a hand in a terrorist bomb attack that targeted southeastern Iraq earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced.

IRAN - Amin Ali-Panahi executed in Shiraz on 29 December 2021

USA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to July 1, 2021

Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades

PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BLASPHEMY

A Peshawar court on 23 December 2021 convicted a 42-year-old man of committing blasphemy through uploading a video on the internet and sentenced him to death along with a fine of Rs100,000.

IRAN - Unidentified prisoner executed in Rajai Shahr Prison "in recent days"

For murder

BANGLADESH: 13 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF BRAHMANBARIA AWAMI LEAGUE LEADER

A Dhaka court on 26 December 2021 sentenced 13 people to death in a case filed over the murder of a local Awami League leader in 2016.

SAUDI ARABIA: IS-LINKED MAN EXECUTED FOR SUICIDE ATTACK PLOT

Saudi Arabia on 27 December 2021 executed a Yemeni man accused of plotting a suicide attack in the kingdom and of links to the Islamic State jihadist group, the interior ministry said.

IRAN - Ahmad Nehtani executed in Sabzevar Prison on December 27

On drug-related charges

IRAN - Alireza Moradi executed in Diezelabad

No other information

IRAN - Ali Imani executed in Ardabil Prison on December 26

For murder

JAPAN: THREE PRISONERS EXECUTED IN FIRST HANGINGS SINCE 2019

Japan hanged three prisoners on 21 December 2021, its first executions in two years, with the government saying it was necessary to maintain capital punishment in the face of continued "atrocious crimes".

MYANMAR: MORE THAN 90 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY MILITARY COURTS

More than 90 people have been sentenced to death by military courts in Myanmar’s Yangon region since the country’s army overthrew civilian rule in a Feb. 1 coup, according to reports in Myanmar’s junta-controlled media.

IRAN - Ardavan Falahvand and Hossein Mirakarami executed in Khorramabad on December 21

At least 360 executions il 2021

UAE: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY ABU DHABI COURT

The Criminal Court of Abu Dhabi has sentenced a Pakistani expatriate to death for possessing narcotic and psychotropic substances with the intention of promoting them, Gulf News reported on 20 December 2021.

USA - Florida. Jury sentences Markeith Loyd to death

TUNISIA: SENTENCES RANGING FROM 12 YEARS IN PRISON TO DEATH PENALTY HANDED DOWN IN TERRORISM CASES

The criminal chamber at the judicial counter-terrorism division rendered judgements in several terror cases.

USA - 2021 Year End Report from the Death Penalty Information Center

11 executions and 18 new death sentences in 1 year

KUWAIT: ETHIOPIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING INDIAN MAN

The Criminal Department of the High Court of Kuwait, headed by Counselor Abdullah Al-Othman, sentenced to

IRAN - Heydar Ghorbani executed in Sanandaj on December 19.

Kurdish political prisoner

IRAN - Fatemeh Aslani executed in Isfahan Central Prison on December 19

129th execution of a woman since 2013

IRAN - Three men executed on drug-related charges in Shiraz Prison on December 19

Hamed Darvish, Naeim Shehbakhsh and Abdolkhalegh Salarzehi

USA - 2021 Gallup Poll: Public Support for Capital Punishment Remains at Half-Century Low

IRAN - Hadi Shahriari executed in Shiraz Prison

On charges of moharebeh

PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

A Taxila court on 13 December 2021 sentenced a man to death for murdering a former councillor during a reconciliation meeting in Mohallah Warrian in Taxila police area in August 2019.

NORTH KOREA: AT LEAST 7 PEOPLE REPORTEDLY PUBLICLY EXECUTED FOR WATCHING K-POP

A new report from a human rights group has found North Korea has publicly executed at least seven people for watching or distributing K-pop videos in the last decade.